Hot off the press, hackers were able to gain unauthorized access to Equifax’s consumer data, potentially affecting almost half the United States population, roughly around 143 million consumers. Equifax promises to allow affected consumers free credit protection. I don’t know the extent of such protection. Will such protection help consumers fight bad credits due to nefarious activities through this hack? Equifax is also cooperating with the authorities to figure out the mastermind behinds this hack. Also, Equifax has hired professionals to help them tighten up the security and clean up whatever might be left behind in their system by the hackers. Anyhow, Equifax’s CEO is explaining and assuring his customers in the video right after the break.

Internet loan companies like Prosper are very few in the United States, but in China these companies are too numerous to count. These loan companies are less regulated in China, and so the growth of the Internet loan sector is incredible. Basically, these less regulated Internet loan companies are responsible for at least 12,000 startups every day in China. Sometimes, it takes as fewer than few minutes to find the funding for a loan. Some loans can also go up to millions of dollars. The risks for these loans are there even though the Internet loan companies are doing fine at the moment. Nonetheless, as we all know the world is full of uncertainties, and so risks are risks. Sometimes, scam could be created from scammers who target loan companies to bilk out money from everyday investors. In short, these Internet loan companies rely on Chinese citizens’ greed to provide the funds for both new and old, big and small businesses. Some struggling businesses, whether they’re big or small, got a second chance through these Internet loans, because traditional banks couldn’t handle the appetite for such risks. Anyway, check out the video after the break to see the details on how Internet loan companies in China are growing. Enjoy!

Cold calls from telemarketers are annoying, and I don’t pick these calls up at all. In fact, my so called traditional home phone line is often being ignored when the phone rings. So called traditional isn’t so traditional, because VOIP is what it is. So, the fact that someone has built a bot just to keep a cold caller on the phone for as long as possible is making my day. I got a blast from watching the YouTube video which demonstrates how a bot got a cold caller confused, amused, and annoyed. Check out the video right after the break. Enjoy!

I’m just releasing Vidxr.com, and this will be the to go personal music video playlist weblog for me. Of course, while adding more awesome music videos to Vidxr, I hope you can check Vidxr out for some enjoyable music video time.

We’re living in a digital age where most things can be shared digitally. Vidxr is made possible by content sharing features provided by various online services such as YouTube. Thanks to these web services, I’m able to form Vidxr.

As time goes on, I hope that I will be able to make Vidxr a very likable music video weblog. If you like what you’re seeing with Vidxr, please let everyone knows about it. Thank you very much!